Jim just nods, more than willing to accept that. It's part of the reason he's not just doing the time honored 'no comment' and running off before she can press him further on the matter. That, and he's already been worked over by an expert some months back, and that hasn't come back to haunt him. Yet. That he knows about.

He scrubs a hand through his hair, trying to figure how to even answer that. "Some of the details are lost to history, but what we do know is three hundred years ago, scientists were trying to improve the human race through genetic engineering. Popular theory is that they wanted everyone to be as equal as possible so old prejudices would die out. There's another theory that says the old Earth governments wanted supersoldiers. Khan and his people were the result, and for whatever reason, they decided that physical superiority meant they should be in charge. Millions died, cities were destroyed, lots of records were lost. By the time the Eugenics Wars were over, Earth was a different place."

"I don't know if Khan and his people just escaped, or if they got shot out into space as punishment instead of executed, but they ended up on a sleeper ship and didn't get discovered until about two years ago."